Amanda's+progress+log

3/7/12: logged into wiki space, searched for Sylvia Plath photos @http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=sylvia+plath&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=b_1XT9L1FI2ltwfK3dDwDg&biw=1280&bih=593&sei=c_1XT5TZJ8OJtwfRo8XiDg

3/12/12: possible main photo sylvia plath
 * ‍‍‍‍‍‍*[[image:http://bibliojunkie.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/sylvia-plath.jpg]] ‍‍‍‍‍‍** *
 * consult kelsey and eduardo so we can all agree on which pictures to use***

3/12/12: found video of Sylvia plath reading "Daddy"

@http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hHjctqSBwM media type="youtube" key="6hHjctqSBwM" height="315" width="420" the poem is really personal and creepy and reffers to hiscorical conflicts and her personal opinions on them

3/12/12: some bio of sylvia at the bottom

more bio

list of poems and other info

3/16/12: listed our names in the "by" sectoin on sylvia plath page

found a huge biography, very detailed detailed bio ####### (Steinberg)

found "specialness in her short stories" on jstor. journal of narrative techniques

two opinions of her/ views of her life

sample essays/ other opinions of her works

short stories: Initiation, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, novels: The Bell Jar [famously controversial]

johnny bible dreams opinion

many sylvia plath quotes, maybe put one of these above the picture on the main project page plath quotes more quotes

3/23/12: best biography from biography.com, also has 4 videos, great quick facts, biography.com sylvia plath

she first attempted suicide at 20 years old her husband was having an affair commited suicide at age 30 "bit her husband on the cheek" ? video on bio.com

american cultural history background to understand the world she was living in from the early 1930's to early 1960's (told by decade)

3/30/12:

Plath's incorporation of society while she wrote her poetry "The Comfortable Concentration Camp"

Plath's relationship with her husband Ted Hughes's Archetypal Marriage..."

database biography gale biography in context there is more on the original search page

more info of her life from this

Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton's friendship and influence

4/17/12:

we all worked together on the project at my house and divided parts All of us are going to combine our research and work together on the biography. All of us are going to work on the analytical essay, we will analyze the poem __Daddy__

__another article, analyzing her works__

__analysis on Daddy__

__The Terror of Our Days: Four American Poets Respond to the Holocaust__ starts on page 53

4/18/12:

An Embattled Study of Sylvia Plath's 'Ariel'; a Translation of Poems by Spain's Miguel Hernandez

When a writer's extratextual life challenges our prejudices and acumen

the list is here articles

they are from the NSU databases

4/23/12:

Eduardo and I are working on the biography at Barnes and Noble. I am doing family background and historical connection

I like this more than anything I've found so far. VERY detailed family info best bio yet
 * 1) (Reuben)

Family Background:

Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts during the height of the Great Depression (Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2006). Her Father, Otto Plath, was a highly esteemed Biology and German professor at Boston University where he received his Doctorate of Science in entomology. Being stripped of his name from the family Bible for failing to become a Lutheran minister as his parents and grandparents had hoped, Otto took a permanent position as a professor at Boston University. A Polish immigrant, Otto spoke German, Polish, and French before he learned English; however, this did not stop his communication as he had an affair with a young master’s student named Aurelia Schober in 1930. Aurelia Schober, who renounced her Catholic religion, worked as a librarian and typist at Boston University after being salutatorian of her high school and valedictorian of her college class. Connected by their shared love of science and language, the two apostates were driven by Aurelia’s mother to Reno, Nevada so that Otto could divorce his wife; they then traveled to Carson City, Nevada to get married in 1931 (Wyant, 2011). Together they had two children, Sylvia (1932) and Warren (1935).

4/25/12:

worked on the historical connection

how plath incorporated society and history into her poetry good historical stuff
 * 1) (Annas)

4/27/12:

added a citation to the family background paragraph

//__*tried to figure out why my comments on kelsey's log won't highlight...*__//

4/28/12:

added another citation to the family background

4/29/12:

"Lady Lazarus" info for more historical connection "Lady Lazarus" ^ didn't use Historical Connection:

Having grown up during some of the most eventful decades in American history, Sylvia Plath incorporated much of her life experiences and surroundings into her poetry. She used historical events and mid-twentieth century’s societal structure to compare her own life and her own struggles to that of the real world in order to bring the reader to the conclusion she wanted to make. World War Two, which began in 1939, and the Holocaust are used many times throughout Plath’s poetry and literature to give the reader an idea of the pain she felt. In her poem “Lady Lazarus,” Plath directly relates her suicide attempts to that of the torture that the Nazis inflicted on the Jewish people, ultimately becoming a Jew herself (Aird, 1973). In the 1950s, women were viewed as second-class citizens with little to no rights. Plath’s feeling of limitations and entrapment has been “directly connected to the particular time and place in which she wrote her poetry” (Annas, 1980). Women in the 1950s to 1960s were very oppressed due to their lack of rights in society and the work place. This oppression shows in her poem “The Applicant” in which the protagonist is a doll that can cook, sew, and talk. Plath felt this degradation of women realistically because her husband Ted Hughes treated her as his subordinate. “The Applicant” portrays unequal marriage in the time period as well as a job seeker, which directly connects to the Capitalist economic system that the United States lives by (Annas, 198). The job seeker may also be a reference to the end of the Great Depression as many men attempted to re-enter the working world. By the time the 1960s came around, the Civil Rights Movement dominated all radio stations and newspapers across the country. Plath makes reference to the Ku Klux Klan in her poem “Cut.”

Eduardo and I are working on finishing up the biography at my house

°we can talk about how strict her father was and how he influenced her writing in the "Daddy" analysis°

just some extra bio info here
 * 1) (Gállego)

FINISHED THE BIO! YES!

used thisfor my Bell Jar comment
 * 1) (Gould)

4/30/12:

I fixed most of the stuff in red on the bio. all except for the historical connections paragraph. that one will take some more time and thought.

5/4/12:

fixed a little more in the historical connections but not the major parts

note for the group work on sunday: we should start the annotated bibiography, maybe make a separate page for it sot hat we can edit it whenever

5/12/12:

embedded the poem and did the comments


 * NOTE TO MRS. FURER! I tried to indent the italicized comments and I was able to to it in edit but when I pressed save and went to the main page, it wasn't indented anymore so what should I do?***

5/15/12:

fixed parenthetical citations (took out commas)

5/16/12:

began annotated bibliography put a symbol next to used articles for later

5/17/12:

worked on annotated bibliography in class wrote all of my paragraphs for the printed out sources and created citations for the ones with special markings on here. I'll do those paragraphs tomorrow

5/18/12:

worked more on the annotated bibliography during the day, just have one more citation to do

added a conclusion to the historical connections paragraph

made the vocabulary component and finished my portion of the annotated bibliography

5/20/12:

put together the rest of the bibliography, i still need 2 of kelsey's paragraphs.

did the comment threads for the literary analysis

added a works cited component to the main wiki